HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET

HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by RICHARDSON ISD, serveing 659 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 519.

Within RICHARDSON ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 38,526 students, HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET shows that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 39.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET is one.

STULTS ROAD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET. On composite proficiency, HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 658 students in 2018 compared to 659 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for HAMILTON PARK PACESETTER MAGNET typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.